NORMAL MORNING MEETING THIS WEEK
Meeting This Week - we are at Cilantro 7am for 7.10am start
For full location details, please refer here.
The meeting will also be available on Zoom - details here
Edition 218
Monday, 9th June 2025
Message from our President - Tim's Tattles .
We had breakfast again at Cilantro where Ian spoke to us about our website and souring information from it . Thanks Ian
Bert d'Unienville was supposed to speak to us for the fourth time as "man behind the badge" however he had the unfortunate occurrence of loading his car with diesel fuel instead of petrol or vice versa. In any case he had a valid reason for not keep his appointment as "the man behind the badge"
We hope that this week he will be able to tell his story which promises to be very interesting I think from his beginning in Mauritius through South Africa to Australia
Yours in Rotary ‘The Magic of Rotary’
President Tim Lynch
BOARD MINUTES
A reminder to members that Board Minutes are available for viewing from the Club's website. Note that you must be logged in as a Member in order to gain access.
Access to all documents including Board Minutes can gained here.
The last published Board Minutes were the meeting of April 8, 2025 - here. Additional Board Minutes here.
Ian Ballantine
Roster for the next 2 weeks
Note Market start time is 6.15am
Click on See all Rosters at right for future weeks. Members click here to see your own roster.
Meetings
Meeting June 11th, 2025
Chairperson d'Unienville, Bert
Cashier / Regalia Magee, James
Cashier/Regalia O'Brien, Linda
Regalia
Meeting June 18th, 2025
Chairperson Perry, Grant
Cashier / Loeliger, Sue
Cashier O'Brien, Peter
Regalia Impey, Jo
Market June 15th, 2025
Market Leader Gledhill, Geoff
Assistant - Carruthers, Kellie
Assistant - Gaddie, Jules
Market June 22nd, 2025
Market Leader Ferguson, Paul
Assistant - d'Unienville, Bert
Assistant Egan, Kevin
This week's speaker / event
This week (definitely)- Bert d'Unienville
Details and Registration here
Please check the upcoming events on the Club website here
REGISTRATION FOR MEETINGS All meetings will now utilise the Registration facility. asking members to register their attendance, or non-attendance, at Club meetings. Note that it is equally important that guests are registered as well.
Members can either register as soon as the event appears in the calendar or respond to the invitation(s) via email to members in the week prior to the meeting. This email will contain a direct link to the event registration page. Here, we ask that you either accept or decline the invitation. You will also have the opportunity to add any guests. Once registered for the event, you will no longer receive an email for that event.
If you choose not to register either your intention to attend or not, it will be assumed you are not attending.
A reminder that instructions for Registration are here.
Ian Ballantine
Please forward any events you want promoted to the Editor.
The Club Changeover Dinner
Evening of Saturday June 28, 2025
Details and booking here.
Note, there will be NO meeting on Wednesday June 25
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Link to photos from 2025 Conference here
Link to photos from 2024 Conference here
District Changeover - July 12, 2025 (Details to follow)
President Tim Lynch chaired today's club meeting at Cilantro which included guests Nicky Chung and Gary Ramage. Charles R zoomed into the meeting.
CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS - President Tim
- Club Changeover - a reminder to everyone of the Club Changeover on Saturday 28 June. Tim thanked Linda for issuing the invitations to everyone - and invited everyone to please respond as soon as possible. RSVP Linda O'Brien or via Registration on the club website.
- Board Meeting - the next board meeting will be held on Tuesday 10/6 at Tim's home at 7.30pm as per usual.
- Club Excellence Award - Tim had the pleasure of receiving a District 9815 Club Excellence Award on behalf of the club at the last President's meeting.
- Guest Speaker - unfortunately our guest speaker for today, club member Bert d'Unienville, is not available following a mishap with his car when returning from his holidays. Bert has been rescheduled to speak at the club meeting on 11/6. Consequently, Tim invited PDG Ian to provide more information on our Club website and the Club Runner App.
PDG Ian Ballantine chaired this evening's club meeting at Cilantro where club members and guests were treated to a wonderful 4 course Shared Experience dinner prepared by Certificate 4 Cordon Bleu students studying at Holmesglen Moorabbin Campus. Guests included Emma Clark, DG Nominee 2026-2027 and Catherine Elfick - both from R.C. Emerald and District, Julie Kempton, Marilyn Brownlees, Sarah Bennett, Puja Mahajan, PDG Bob Richards of R.C. Sandringham, Gary Ramage, and Nicky (guest of Linda O'Brien).
Larry chaired today's club meeting at Cilantro. Charles joined the meeting via Zoom, and Gary joined in as a guest.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- President Tim commented on his very sporty teal coloured tie, and its origins. He plans to attend the Kingston Community Awards event today and mentions our club has been nominated for an award. (Edf-Story here) He will let us know how we faired next week.
- Terry Kane displayed two Certificates of Appreciation our club received from our sister club - R.C. of South Davao for our club's donations for free cataract operations in December 2023, and December 2024 for people in need in the Philippines.
- A reminder to everyone that next week's club meeting is an evening meeting at Cilantro on Thursday 29/5. All members need to register their attendance.
- John Mason displayed a scarf he received from Celestina (Tina) Daez, the ROMAC recipient from Timor Leste that he and Margaret hosted whilst recuperating from her surgeries in 2015. Tina is now a young lady, studying English at university with plans to become a teacher. It is not often that we get to see the results of where our Rotary programs have had an impact - and it is always very satisfying when we do. John's ongoing connection with Tina is one of them - how lucky we are.
- Sue Loeliger , and a few others, were sporting the colour orange in recognition of Victoria Emergency Services Week and the volunteers who donate their time to service the community in times of need.
Ed - Members can view the result of the Equity Trustees ballot here.
ROSTERS - for Sunday's market and next week's club meeting were announced.
Editor - President Tim Lynch along with members Ron Brownlees and Linda O'Brien attended thew Kingston Community Awards evening held at the Kingston (old) Town Hall on Wednesday May 21, 2025. Here is President Tim's report:
The nomination (for "Kingston Community Award Bentleigh Moorabbin Central" - Ed) was put by our own Ron Brownlees. Thanks Ron.
It was a bit of a process to get to the award ceremony
There were about 200 people at the function.
There were 8 groups nominated for community awards but only one could win and it was the group" its OKay to not be okay".
Its great to achieve some acknowledgment for the work that we do and whilst I received the award really it was all due to the hardworking members of the club. Congratulations and thank you for the good work you do.
It is a privilege to lead you.
please see a photo that was taken with the mayor Georgina Oxley at the awards ceremony at Kingston Town hall on Wednesday 21/5/25 of Linda and I . - picture at right.
Click on ReaD me to see more pics kindly provided by Linda O'Brien
Ron Brownlees chaired today's club meeting at Cilantro. Guests Kerrie and Gary joined the meeting, with Charles joining in a little later via Zoom. Unfortunately, our planned guest speaker from Emerge was unable to attend, however, this provided a great opportunity for PDG Ian Ballantine to demonstrate how to use My Rotary - a training session for new members and a refresher for our existing club members in one!
I had the pleasure of leading the team at the Bentleigh Market on Sunday, May 18, 2025 and I thought I would post a few pics.
The team was myself, Kirsten Oakley and Dee Mason. A very special thanks to Larry Green who volunteered to come along for the first few busy hours. Note that the pic including Larry shows him in "civvies". This is because I left it to the time he was on his way to take the photograph. I can assure you he was in Rotary hi viz all morning.
Assisting us from Moorabin were Vivien Chetty and Andrew Kenny. At the end of the morning Jen and Nick from Holland arrived to help pack up.
A very special appearance was made by John and Margaret Mason. Very wisely, they timed their visit to the sunniest time of the morning.
For those members who aren't aware, Dee is John's daughter.
Also in attendance were Dee's dog and John and Margaret's dog.
There is a separate story on the defibrillator here.
This article is intended to help members register themselves and/or a guest to a Club event. Note, your can also register your intention NOT to attend.
If an event is inviting members to register there will be a button with the word: "Members" below "Online Registration". refer image at left.
Note that you need to be already logged in as a member. If you are not a member, this page will not be of any help. It may still be possible to register for an event as a non member if the event is open to the public.
From the Calendar page here you can subscribe to the Club's event calendar.
This will result in the Club's calendar being added to your existing calendar subscriptions, thus ensuring that as an event is added (or modified) to the Club's calendar, it will appear on your phone, tablet etc. Calendars supported are Outlook, Google and Apple.
Take the link, Subscribe to Calendar, from the Calendar Page.
Team members:Chris Burrows, Jo Impey, Helen Nodrum, Venu, from Moorabbin RCC Other helpers and visitors: Kevin Egan
Waiting in queue: 0. O Night parkers : 1 Pedestrian count Not registered, minimal numbers Market Report: Cold, wet typical winter’s day. Maximum temp was 8C…only 9 stall holders attended on the day. My thanks to the team who soldiered on for a full day at market. No racks or tables hired so the float was used for coffees.
Leader, Helen Nodrum
Note there is a separate story about the defib at the Market here.
Note from the Editor re Images and Events
A point regarding the submission of images for the Bulletin and Website: Members are reminded that images have to meet a minimum size requirement, as has been specified for some time in the section at the bottom of this Bulletin. 820 pixels is the minimum size required with larger being better as this allows for cropping. The submission of images via MMS is NOT preferred as they are too small and of inferior quality. Email or Whatsapp is far superior.
Would any member like to take responsibility for the updating of the Club's Event Calendar? I have created a page of instructions here so it is very easy to take over.
Thank you, Ian Ballantine
I remind members that you are responsible for the information contained in the Club's database. This includes, birthdays, phone numbers, addresses etc etc. Even your own photo. You maintain this via this link.
Additionally, member's birthdays and anniversaries will no longer be listed in the Club Bulletin. This is to protect the privacy of members. This information is still available to members here.
Ian Ballantine
A reminder to members to keep checking the calendar of upcoming events for evening and perhaps, one day, daytime events.
Thank you for being a subscriber to our Weekly Club Bulletin. I try to have it published each week by Tuesday morning.
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This week's speaker / event
REGISTRATION FOR MEETINGS
We have received a thank you letter and photos of the horse the club mostly funded from Riding for the Disabled in Moorabbin.
A message to all Club members as regards the ClubRunner App I spoke about at the meeting on the 4th. June.
President Tim Lynch chaired today's club meeting at Cilantro which included guests Nicky Chung and Gary Ramage. Charles R zoomed into the meeting. 
PDG Ian Ballantine chaired this evening's club meeting at Cilantro where club members and guests were treated to a wonderful 4 course Shared Experience dinner prepared by Certificate 4 Cordon Bleu students studying at Holmesglen Moorabbin Campus. Guests included Emma Clark, DG Nominee 2026-2027 and Catherine Elfick - both from R.C. Emerald and District, Julie Kempton, Marilyn Brownlees, Sarah Bennett, Puja Mahajan, PDG Bob Richards of R.C. Sandringham, Gary Ramage, and Nicky (guest of Linda O'Brien). 
Editor - President Tim Lynch along with members Ron Brownlees and Linda O'Brien attended thew Kingston Community Awards evening held at the Kingston (old) Town Hall on Wednesday May 21, 2025. Here is President Tim's report:
I had the pleasure of leading the team at the Bentleigh Market on Sunday, May 18, 2025 and I thought I would post a few pics.
For the information of Club members, we have recently installed in the Bentleigh Market office, a Defibrillator.
